Marco Vargas, a leader with Students Demand Action and a senior at Nava College Preparatory Academy, is working to keep his school and his community safe from gun violence.
In this essay, the author unpacks the original definition for "savage" from the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, explaining the ironic vantage point through which settlers viewed Native Americans.
In this essay, the author gives a short history of race riots, showing how they were originally organized by whites in an effort to show dominance over African Americans, particularly in the South.